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[nysan]

Bzzt. Your phone is buzzing, but it doesn't seem to be due to receiving any calls or texts. Upon opening your device, the vibration will stop — however, there will be a faint sound of static as you navigate through it, as though it's been tampered with. Anyone tech-savvy would discover fairly quickly that it's nothing of major concern — nothing's going to explode, thankfully — but it won't take an expert to realize that there's something very different about the network.

All names on your contact page have been erased, leaving only unidentifiable numbers and letters behind. They will constantly change, making it impossible to attach these codes to one person.

Some recent posts on the network may also experience this interference: names will be missing, voice recordings erased, and videos so heavily filtered that you would not be able to see the poster's face. Those old messages in your inbox remain mostly untouched, but any incoming messages will certainly be affected by this strange phenomenon.

Not too long into the morning, however, a new voice will appear on the network. The speaker is unaffected by the phenomenon — has she come with answers?

Well, this is unfortunate. As infallible as the Natha claim to be, it would seem that their technology is not backwards-compatible with our networks after all. You may experience some interference with your communications while we work this out, but do not be alarmed. I assure you, this is only temporary.

— Perhaps not. The woman doesn't even identify herself before disconnecting altogether. Well, there are worse things that could be happening, but one thing is for sure: this won't be the last time you'll hear from her.

In the meantime, all network activity may be anonymous, at the player's discretion. You may use this post as an pseudo-anonymous post as well as branch out to misfires in personal inboxes or other network posts. If you opt to have your character post (accidentally) anonymously, please indicate so in the subject line. There will be no usernames displayed. For voice and video, the audio may be distorted and faces altered with strange filters. Feel free to be as creative as you please!

Please direct all questions to the questions thread below.

Comments

[dirthena]

( are you ready for this.

are you. )

What's an angel?

[hellzone]

[ .................... ]

You're joking, right?

[ she can handle "what's a livestream", not "what's an angel"?! ]

[dirthena]

Not at all.

( sometimes you don't have christianity where you're from, alright )

[hellzone]

[ hmm...how to explain this. ]

Well, there's God. And he's the boss over everything. But he can't take care of everything at the same time, so he's got angels that help take care of things in his stead.

[dirthena]

And you're one of them.

( not to knock on other people's beliefs but-- no, wait, she's bitter and jaded about religion now. it sounds kind of like bullshit, but hey. different worlds, maybe this girl's god s real. )

Why not simply have more than one god?

[hellzone]

Because we've just got one, [ Yoshiko explains, with a shrug. ] It's like...like how companies have one president, but lots of department heads!

[ will elera understand this metaphor, who knows. ]

[dirthena]

( sort of. someone is too lazy to google medieval business organizations to find out for sure. )

But they still rely on one person's word of approval. It seems more convenient to have more than one, that's all.

[hellzone]

If you've just got one person, then you don't have a bunch of in-fighting at the top.

[ that's how it works, right? maybe? ]

[dirthena]

But then everyone has to fight for that person's attention.

( it's all theoretical anyway because there IS NO GOD. OR GODS. )

[hellzone]

But that's what you've got the angels for! They take care of the little stuff and just leave the big problems for God.

[dirthena]

I suppose. It all sounds suspicious to me, but perhaps religion has lost its appeal for me.

[hellzone]

It's hard for this stuff to lose appeal for you when it's literally your existence, [ Yoshiko says, despite the fact that what she's saying is 100% bullshit. ]

Did you have a crisis of faith or something?

[dirthena]

Something like that.

[hellzone]

Well I am very sorry for your loss, [ said in a matter of fact tone of voice. ] That is, unless your god was a jerk or something like that.

[dirthena]

You know, I'm going to hate saying this again but: something like that, yes.